We compared Collibra Lineage and Microsoft Purview based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Collibra Lineage focuses on providing clear data lineage visibility, top-notch customer service, reasonable pricing, and beneficial ROI. In contrast, Microsoft Purview emphasizes effective data asset management, user-friendly interface, reasonable pricing, and positive ROI. Users suggest Collibra Lineage improve its interface and performance, while Microsoft Purview users desire enhanced functionality and integration.
Features: Collibra Lineage's most valuable feature is its clear visibility into data lineage, helping users understand data flow and make informed decisions. Microsoft Purview excels in managing data assets, facilitating collaboration, and offering robust data cataloging capabilities.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for Collibra Lineage is described as minimal and hassle-free, while Microsoft Purview offers comparatively low setup costs. Both products have received positive feedback for their reasonable pricing structures and flexible licensing options., Collibra Lineage provides significant ROI by improving data quality, aiding compliance, and enhancing data governance efforts. Users value its user-friendly interface and seamless integration with other tools. Microsoft Purview also generates positive ROI by managing data assets, enhancing governance, and accelerating analytics processes. Its user-friendly interface, integration capabilities, centralized data discovery, cost savings, and improved decision-making are highly appreciated.
Room for Improvement: Collibra Lineage could improve its interface, speed, performance, and comprehensiveness in capturing and representing data lineage relationships. Users suggest more customization options and flexibility in exporting and sharing lineage information. On the other hand, Microsoft Purview needs enhancements in functionality, user-friendliness, data classification capabilities, search filters, integration with other Microsoft products, collaboration features, and data ingestion processes.
Deployment and customer support: The feedback on Collibra Lineage indicates that the duration required for deployment and setup can vary, with some users taking three months for deployment and an additional week for setup. However, others only required a week for both phases. On the other hand, users of Microsoft Purview reported similar variations, with some needing three months for deployment and a week for setup, while others required just a week for both phases. This suggests that both products have similar variances in the time required for establishing a new tech solution., Collibra Lineage: Users highly regard Collibra Lineage's customer service, praising its responsiveness, helpfulness, and prompt assistance. The knowledgeable and friendly representatives provide top-notch support. Microsoft Purview: Users express satisfaction with Microsoft Purview's customer service, deeming it helpful and responsive. The support provided effectively caters to their needs.
The summary above is based on 48 interviews we conducted recently with Collibra Lineage and Microsoft Purview users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"We find the most valuable feature of this solution to be the lineage aspect."
"The diagrams are good for data visualization."
"The most valuable features of Collibra Lineage are the multiple options for automation. Additionally, if you have a scenario where automation does not work, you have the option to manually create the lineage. The solution does not force you to always go through an automated way where you have broken lineage and you are stuck without a lineage."
"The solution makes data more discoverable and transparent."
"It shows how the data was transformed on the way and how the solutions were derived. This is the essence of the tool and why it is so powerful."
"The solution has very good online assistance."
"My favorite Purview feature is auto-scanning. Once we set up Purview, we can automatically scan multiple data sources when new data comes into specific databases, like SQL and Oracle. We don't need to rediscover the new data or do anything manually because it automatically happens."
"Data authentication enables us to classify documents based on whether they should be restricted for internal consumption or permitted for external sharing."
"Microsoft Purview is scalable."
"Microsoft Purview's primary benefit lies in safeguarding sensitive and confidential data, thereby mitigating the risk of internal data exfiltration."
"Purview helps mitigate risk and allows us to govern the information being shared among apps and devices."
"The cataloging tool is definitely the most valuable... It tells you about all the data you have in your tables, which helps people understand our data. We now know what data we have."
"The data classification part of the solution is excellent, especially as it gives us an insight into our sensitive data within Microsoft 365."
"You can set up automated dates to alert on internal data."
"Collibra doesn't provide support for integration for SAP Info Steward directly with Collibra."
"The workflow documentation must be improved."
"Collibra Lineage could improve connectively. If they can offer more out-of-the-box connectors, which come as in a package compared to you having to go and buy a lot in the marketplace for certain specific connectors."
"We would like this solution to be able to connect directly to the databases, so we can pull directly from Databank without manual intervention."
"Before you can use this solution, you have to make a lot of changes to how you measure your information in your organization, the data governance and policies, and the organizational structures that use them. Many companies believe that if they purchase the licenses for the tool that they have done the job, but this is far from the case with this tool."
"The product must be cheaper."
"We have had some issues automating our document management with Power Apps. I haven't been super-disappointed with anything except for Power Apps, which kinda drives me nuts. I think it's because I am a coder who can do things properly, and I keep trying to do things there, but it's not working out the way. The security team is pretty quick. I'm kind of a thorn in their side. I always try to get around stuff. They haven't come to me for anything saying, "Hey, I can't find this information." They're pretty good. Maybe, there's a lack of documentation, but that doesn't seem to be an issue for our team."
"I have some concerns about the separation of roles in Purview from the Microsoft tenant, as well as how they interact with the security portal and endpoint manager."
"Although you can explore the data, that creates a great interest in data lineage or the data flow. How does it go from a source to a platform to a Power BI report, for example? It is possible, to some extent, to see that with Purview, but the lineage feature requires some manual work on the development side or more work from Microsoft to improve on it."
"he one thing it doesn't do is data quality."
"I would like to have complete video documentation for training."
"There are negatives to the compliance aspect of Purview in that you get a lot of false positives with some of the native scanning and rules in the platform. A lot of them need tweaking to get a more realistic handle on what data there is."
"The product must provide better integrations with OS X and iOS."
"Blueprints and landing zones like we have in Azure would be great to see in Purview. The solution could offer a baseline or blueprint of recommended settings for compliance regulations such as GDPR and ISO, which could be applied with a simple switch in the options."
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Collibra Lineage is ranked 11th in Data Governance with 6 reviews while Microsoft Purview Data Governance is ranked 1st in Data Governance with 51 reviews. Collibra Lineage is rated 7.6, while Microsoft Purview Data Governance is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Collibra Lineage writes "User-friendly with good metadata management but needs more time to mature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Purview Data Governance writes "User friendly with good documentation but needs to cover more non-Microsoft use cases". Collibra Lineage is most compared with MANTA Flow, Alation Data Catalog, erwin Data Intelligence by Quest, OneTrust DataGovernance and Protegrity Data Security, whereas Microsoft Purview Data Governance is most compared with Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, Varonis Platform, Informatica Axon and BigID. See our Collibra Lineage vs. Microsoft Purview Data Governance report.
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These two are suites of 'tools' for metadata management. I would ask first that you list 'what' you are wanting to achieve with such tools. Data Catalog? Data Lineage? Table level or Column level lineage? Data Quality detection, etc, etc.
Your answers will be critical as you engage various vendors as each may say they do 'it all', but the reality is something less. Also, do you need to manage metadata across heterogeneous systems, just Azure, or others, because some tools are great if used on their 'native' platform, but not so great integrating with other platforms.
You may also want to consider Quest/erwin Data Intelligence Suite. I have implemented this solution and it is one of the best. I would add that some tools tend to 'overwhelm' your users with all they can do. So be careful that whatever you bring in will not become 'shelf-ware'.